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    Coach Carter Journey

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    Carter’s Coach Carter is a film about basketball players and nothing else… Right? Wrong! Coach Carter is a film that dives into so much more than just basketball. Released in 2005, and based on the true story of the 1999 Richmond High Basketball team. The film follows the lives of the players and coach of the team, who all live and battle with their own demons. The story is one filled with triumphs, disappointments and decisions that shape lives. It follows the lives of Coach Ken Carter (Samuel L

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    Coach Carter Stereotypes

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    In the movie Coach Carter, the protagonist, Coach Ken Carter is heavily impacted by his surroundings, which turned him into an honest and respectable adult that wishes to give back to his community. He takes the difficult task of training a basketball team to try to give them a brighter future. Because he too grew up in a violent and poor neighborhood, Coach Carter knows how to interact and teach his team about values and commitment. Coach Carter opposes many of the stereotypes established by

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    Coach Carter Thesis

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    Coach Carter was a coach for the Richmond High School basketball team located in Richmond California. Kenny Ray Carter was born in Fernwood, Mississippi on January 1, 1959. Kenny Carter is now an American business owner, he attended Richmond High School, he continued getting his education and his basketball career at San Francisco State University. A movie was made in honor of a famed coaching skills names “Coach Carter”. Coach Carter was a phenomenal basketball and instilled three values such as

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    Coach Carter Theory

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    Coach Carter is a movie inspired by a true story where Samuel L. Jackson plays the role of Ken Carter. Ken Carter attended Richmond High for his high school career where he set the high standards for basketball. After being considered one of the best athlete’s to attend the school he was asked to come back and coach the men’s basketball team. Richmond High is unlike most high schools due to the fact of the poverty surrounding the school. Carter accepted the coaching position so he could help

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    there have been many people to come into my life and do such good things for me. The one person who really sticks out to me by willingly doing great things in my life John Carter, also known as, Coach Carter. He is a very selfless person ad always makes sure that he educationally pours into someone every day. Coach Carter started an organization called, “The Turner 12”. That organization is a college bound/ prep and leadership organization that takes twelve students and exposes each student to

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    Coach Carter is an American biographical sports drama film inspired by a true story of Richmond High School basketball coach, Ken Carter, who made headlines in 1999 for benching his undefeated high school basketball team due to poor academic results. It was released in 2005 and was directed by Thomas Carter. There are a few reasons as to why I chose this film over many others. Firstly, Coach Carter had a twisted storyline as compared the sports drama films. Instead of focusing mainly on practising

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    Coach Carter is a sports drama film based on a true story about a former record holding Richmond High School basketball player, Ken Carter, who returns to his high school to coach the current juvenile players. At the first practice of the season, Coach Carter immediately acknowledges that the players are rude and disrespectful toward their superiors and he decides to require each player to sign a written contract that states that they have to maintain certain regulations and follow many rules throughout

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    Coach Carter is a hero because he changed the values of his culture. He took a group of boys that would have ended up in jail or dead and turned them into well rounded you men what went on to be valuable members of society. Richmond High School  had given up on trying to get their students to graduate from high school. As a result, of this, their graduation was really low. He took on the job as the Richmond High School basketball coach to try to make a difference. He introduced his value system of

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    the players are receiving. Coach Carter is a great movie and is a great viewing experience for an audience. Without doubt Coach Carter is a great movie and will give the audience a great viewing experience because of how it can educate the audience about basketball, it will also educate the audience about being a student athlete, and the last reason why it would be a great viewing experience is because of all of the humor in the story. The first reason why Coach Carter is a great viewing experience

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    Coach Carter is basically about former two- time all American Ken Carter who agrees to take over the coaching job at his old school Richmond High. For me, this movie was indeed a motivational one as it intended to showcase different The story of Coach Carter specifically revolves around a low-income community in Richmond, California, of majority black racial background. Coach Ken Carter returns to his old high school as a basketball coach, where he himself was a star player on the Richmond Oilers

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